{"product_id":"9781350451407","title":"Positive Youth Development Principles in Practice : How Youth Service Organizations Help Youth Thrive","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis open access book tells the story of eight youth service organizations in the USA, using the voices of the impacted youth and the staff who accompanied them. Drawing on a series of structured interviews with young people and staff and informed by positive youth development (PYD), ideas the author proposes nine universal principles for working with youth from under-resourced neighborhoods that can be applied to any youth organization. The principles include orienting youth towards a purposeful future, providing an opportunity to build academic and critical thinking abilities, and developing individual's identity and sense of agency. The book contributes to the emerging methodology of principles-focused evaluation and draws on range of disciplines including psychology, education and youth studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Thrive Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872269476088,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":235.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781350451407-1.jpg?v=1783687504","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781350451407","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}